Actually, since I have to be up, I might as well note that I picked this up and it should be arriving later Monday (I also grabbed a Monoprice 18-Inch SATA III 6.0 Gbps Cable, because apparently everybody who buys the drive also buys one).
I bought it after consulting with my father-in-law, who does hardware/IT/troubleshooting stuff these days; the solid state hybrid drive is probably going to be my best option while SSDs are so expensive. I figure that I’ll keep my existing drive in the machine and put everything on it that I don’t need constantly, and use the SSHD for my main drive. Or is that dumb?
Also: swapping out memory and the video card wasn’t anything like a chore, really. But I should probably take my computer down to the shop to fiddle with the hard drives, right?
Using a conventional drive for less often used stuff is fine. Yes you want to the hybrid for the main drive.
If you’re not comfortable with duping drives (or don’t have the software to do it for bootable drives) taking it to an expert is fine. It certainly is something a home uses can do on their own, but if you don’t have drive cloning software, take it to someone who does.
I got two sick kids and I’m on four hours’ sleep. I’m taking it to somebody who does. 🙂
I found my SSHD wasn’t much better than a regular drive, and you can’t defrag it because of the SSD portion. A pure SSD is remarkable, and you don’t need to defrag it.
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YMMV.
Fair enough, but I needed a 2TB anyway, and the difference between the SSHD and a regular was only about thirty bucks.
Still, I’d pocket the $30 and put it to getting an SSD for a boot drive. 240GB+ SSDs are under $100 these days
Maybe that’ll be the next purchase, then.
‘sshd’ in pretty much every flavor of Unix (including MacOS) is the secure shell daemon. Nomenclature confusion ahoy!